Phantastes: a faerie romanceRoutledge, 1858 |
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alabaster appeared armour arms ash-tree beauty began beneath burst cave child close cloth colour Cosmo cottage couch CURRER BELL dark dead death delight door dream drew earth entered eyes face faint Fairy Land Fcap fear feeling feet fell felt flowers forest gazed giants glowed glowworm grew hall hand HARRIET MARTINEAU head heart hope India Jane Eyre JOHN RUSKIN JOHN WILLIAM KAYE kiss knew length light looked Lord Metcalfe marble marble beauty mirror moon motion never night pale passed pedestal PHANTASTES Post 8vo rose round sang seemed shadow shining shone sigh singing sleep smiled song soon soul sound stood story strange suddenly SYDNEY DOBELL tears thee thing thou thought trees turned voice vols W. M. THACKERAY walked wall waters weary weep whole window wings woman wonder wood
Populaire passages
Pagina 99 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Pagina 123 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty City — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted...
Pagina 228 - Alas, how easily things go wrong ! A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.